"One of the most revealing insights in this wonderful book is how familiar these troubled kids are to us. It shows just how thin the line is between the world of the normal adolescent and those who are fighting for their emotional health."  Daniel J. Kindlon, professor of psychology, Harvard School of Public Health, and coauthor of Raising Cain

David L. Marcus is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report

"An original, fascinating, and beautifully written reckoning . . . of that great human passion: to write."  Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and author of An Unquiet Mind

Alice W. Flaherty is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

"You could hardly ask for a more knowledgeable interpreter of the scientific literature."  New York Times Book Review

Daniel L. Schacter is a professor and the chair of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

Andrew Weil, M.D.

Weil, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, is a clinical professor of medicine and the founder and director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Transforming American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
by Greg Critser
This new book by the author of Fat Land exposes the shocking impact of today's pill culture on our bodies.
Hardcover forthcoming in October 2005

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
by Joshua Wolf Shenk
A myth-shattering work of interpretive history that chronicles how Abraham Lincoln's depression helped him achieve greatness.
Hardcover forthcoming in September 2005